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B

Baby AT motherboards, 396–397

Backup battery, 396, 398

Backups

backup programs, 151–152

to optical disks, 167–168

Outlook Express backups, 248–249

Windows utilities, 55, 665–667, 700, 729–730, 807–808

Wizard Mode, all-information backups, 283

Basic and dynamic disks (Windows 2000), 730

Batteries

CMOS, 396, 398, 405

lithium ion, 483

motherboard, 80–82

NiCAD, 483

NiMH, 483

BEDO DRAM (Burst EDO DRAM), 443

Beep codes, 218–219, 255

Belarc Advisor, 257

Bidirectional parallel communications, 502

Binary files, 621

Binary number system, 115, 461–463

BIOS (Basic Input Output System)

AGP aperture settings, 16–17

battery replacement and BIOS settings, 80–82

boot order, 16

chip removal, 84–85

CPU frequency and voltage control settings, 17

defined, 5, 835

EEPROM chips, 407

EPROM chips, 406–407

extended system configuration data (ESCD), 17

flashing (updating), 8, 82–84

functions of, 406

hard drive settings, 130–131, 145–146

IDE detection, 17

interrupts (IRQs), 17, 40–47

LBA support, 149

load default settings, 18

memory settings, 16, 126–127

motherboards and, 82–85, 89

optical drive settings, 163

overview of, 13

passwords and, 16

PC health settings, 17

peripheral settings, 17

PnP (Plug and Play) settings, 18, 407

POST cards and POST tests, 14

POST error codes, 407–408

power settings (ACPI), 16

PROM chips, 406

ROM, 406, 441, 442, 453

S.M.A.R.T. drives and, 17, 146, 148

settings, 16–18, 80–82, 126–127, 130–131, 145–146, 163

setup programs and, 14–18

updates, 82–83, 149

version numbers, 16, 83

video memory settings, 177–178

Windows XP upgrade, 769

Bits and bytes, as size units, 115, 440–441

Blue screen errors, 28, 124, 261

BMP images, 498

BNCs (Bayonet Nut Connectors), 561, 589, 835

Boot sectors, creating new, 339

BOOT.INI

system configuration, 55

Windows 2000, 722–723

Windows ME, 759

Windows NT, 689, 691

Windows XP, 803, 812

Booting

boot disks, 23–25, 171, 262–264, 278–279

boot issues, Windows NT, 691

boot loader, 526

boot order, 16

Boot.ini, 55

bootable floppy disks, 521, 632

from CD-ROMs, 171

to DOS, 620

emergency boot disks, 23–25, 59, 650–651, 756–757

master boot record, 135

Safe Mode Boot, 43–47, 274, 286

to system restore point (Windows ME), 767

troubleshooting boot errors, 285

See also Dual boot systems

BOOTLOG.TXT (Win9x), 651

Breakout boxes, 7

BRI (Basic Rate Interface), 600

Bridges

network, 585, 593–594

PCI, 412–413, 424

Windows XP, 820

Broadband (high-speed) Internet connections, 232–236

Buffers

cache memory, 133

chipsets, 423–424

FIFO buffering, 476

overrun errors, 169

print queues, 503

Burning disks, 161, 170

Bus

address bus, 422

clock and bus speeds, 422

controller chip, 424–425

expansion bus architecture, 409–413

external data bus, 422

mastering, 468

MCA, 496

topology, 588–589

Byte mode (SPP), parallel communications, 502

Bytes, 115